China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of That Ancient Empire
by [ASIA] Allom, Thomas (illus); Wright, G.N. (text)
London & Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes, black leather spines & corners over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt decorations and lettering to spines, 10-7/8†x 8-3/4", all plates present, I: 72 + 96 pp. (32 plates), II: 72 pp. (32 plates), III: 68 pp. (32 plates), IV: 56 pp. (32 plates). In each volume, one of the plates is the vignette on the engraved title page. Rubbing to edges of boards, minor repair... Read More
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A Complete Letter-Writer with Commercial Forms
by [ASIA] YAMADA, Yoshikata; Hoshino, Hisanari; Lloyd, Arthur (ed.)
Tokyo: Banyishi Bookstore, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", 226 pp. + publisher’s ad. According to the Japanese title page, this contains 500 letters; text is in Japanese and English, there are many typos throughout the text. Toning to pages front hinge a bit wobbly. Good condition. +++++Arthur Lloyd was President of the Rikkyo University, the largest Anglican school in Japan. This was intended for a Japanese audience,... Read More
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The Naked Sun
by Asimov, Isaac
Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Ray, Ruth. Yellow paper-covered boards under yellow jacket designed by Ruth Ray. Book club edition, rear flap advertises "Double Star" by Heinlein. Not dated, circa 1960s. Minor toning to spine panel of DJ, small closed tear to top of front panel. A nice vintage copy of a classic sci-fi novel, something of a follow-up to Caves of Steel.
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The Road to Infinity
by Asimov, Isaac
Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Review copy with review slip laid in giving date & price. Black cloth spine over red paper-covered boards, under price-clipped jacket designed by Peter Rauch. Asimov's opening essay on calculators, logarithms, and slide rules is quintessentially Asimovian: smart, self-reflective, and funny.
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Nemesis
by Asimov, Isaac
Doubleday, 1989-09-24. hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. Signed. Signed limited edition of 500 copies. Blue cloth spine over burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, housed in lighter burgundy slipcase. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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Typed Letter Signed dated 23 April 1972, along with carbon of original note from Rick Sneary. Isaac Asimov TLS
by Asimov, Isaac; Sneary, Rick
[New York], 1972. Like New. Signed. Original typed postcard dated 23 April 1972, signed in blue ink by Isaac Asimov. Also included is a carbon of the response to Asimov. Asimov is addressing the active California fan Rick Sneary, who was apparently trying to get Asimov to either attend a Con or donate a manuscript to the benefit auction. Asimov replies "Impossible for me to be there, as you've guessed. Also, alas, impossible for me to contribute anything to the... Read More
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![Benson School P.T.A. [PTA] Cook Book](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/534/007/1616007534.0.l.jpg)
Benson School P.T.A. [PTA] Cook Book
by Benson Parent Teachers Association
Roseburg, Oregon: Benson School P.T.A, 1924. Paperback. Good. Green wraps with black lettering & decoration, two leaves of color ads, b/w ads inside front covers & throughout. General wear & soiling, about average for a cookbook of this age. Contributors' names listed. Two-page ad contribution by the Oregon Growers Cooperative Association (Mistland Products) features lots of prune recipes. Prunes were important to the Douglas County economy at this time, and prune growers were actually the ones who pushed for rural... Read More
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Sancti Athanasii Magni Alexandrini Archiepiscopi, Scriptoris Gravissimi, et Constantissimi Fidei Defensoris, Opera Quae Extant Omnia, etc
by Athanasii. Athanasius, Saint. Patriarch of Alexandria
Coloniae / Cologne: Sumptibus Antonii Hierat, 1617. folio. Hardcover. Very Good. Full contemporary vellum, 14.75" x 9.75", foredge yapped, [12], 541, [83] pp., decorative head & tailpieces to text. Ownership ex-libris inscription dated 1666 on title page; another annotation dated 1729 of the Heidelbergre Society of Jesus. Large woodcut device to title page; t.p. printed in red & black. The works of Athanasius is one of the earliest Church fathers, writing at the time when so much theology & dogma... Read More
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
by Atwater, Richard and Florence
Little, Brown and Company, 1938. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lawson, Robert. 2nd printing, one month after first edition. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering, illustrated endpapers; 8-1/2" tall; 139 pp; illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some soiling to boards and page edges, nice solid binding. White dust jacket has tiny hole to edge of front panel, price-clipped, sticker residue to spine panel. Overall, a nice copy of this Newbery Honor book (and one of my all-time favorites!)... Read More
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The Rape of the Lock, An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
by [Aubrey Beardsley] Pope, Alexander
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Beardsley, Aubrey. Designed by Aubrey Beardsley with his initials to front cover. Hardcover with beveled boards, full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt design to front cover, 9-3/8" tall, 48 pp., nine illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Wear to spine ends with 1/8" tear to bottom of front joint, moderate wear to tips, moderate rubbing to gilt on front cover, foxing to text pages, especially to first several pages.... Read More
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Preces Sancti Nersetis Claiensis Armeniorum Patriarchae viginti quatuor linguis Editae
by Aucher, Pascal [also, Yarowt'iwn Awgerean or Harutyun Avkerian]
Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Full leather binding with gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt ruled borders on both boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece and title page, 6-1/4" x 4â€, 434 pp. Aucher’s name appears in three different versions on the first leaf: Armenian, transliterated Armenian and Latin, dated 1847. George Gordon, Lord Byron, traveled to the Island of St. Lazar where Father Pascal Aucher (1774-1854) taught him Armenian. Together, they... Read More
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The Ascent of F6
by Auden, W.H.; Christopher Isherwood
Random House, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Review copy with slip which also has promo wording "The authors of 'The Dog Beneath the Skin' have written a thrilling play about an attempt to scale a hitherto unreached mountain peak by two groups from rival nations." Ownership inscription & date (1937) of the author Berton Roueche. Minor discoloration to boards, toning to spine panel of jacket, split to rear joint of jacket.
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Audubon's Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America.
by [Audubon, John James] Tyler, Ron
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Inscribed by author to Wayne and Lynn Hamersly, who were generous donors to multiple Pacific Northwest organizations, and apparently "fellow Audubon admirers" as well. Edition of 225 copies. I believe, however, that the copies were issued with only 1 set of prints: this one was described to me (at time of purchase) as special for having two sets (see below), although there is no indication of why there... Read More
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Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims
by Austin, Jane G
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. 15th edition stated. Tan cloth boards with brown & gilt lettering and decoration. Although from Sarah Whitman's time at Houghton, I'm not thinking this is by her. Minor toning to spine, clean & solid copy. Austin was a popular writer of romances during her day.
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Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks series. 39 volumes. Cooking the ... Way: Israeli, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, Brazilian, etc. including How to Cook a Gooseberry Fool
by Lerner; various authors
Lerner Publications Co, 1995. Hardcover. Like New. Glossy pictorial hardcovers in two formats. There are 27 books printed in the original format (1990s) which are 7.25" x 8.5" and there are 12 books printed in the later format (2000s) which are 9" x 7.5". EXTRA POSTAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Titles: Brazilian, Italian, North African, West African, East African, Southern African, Indonesian, Central American, Middle Eastern, Turkish, Cuban, Mediterranean, Swiss, French, Desserts around the World, Lebanese, Russian, Greek,... Read More
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Spit in the Ocean. Number 6 "The Cassady Issue
by Babbs, Ken; [Cassady, Neal]
Pleasant Hill, Oregon: SITO, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed. Silver trade paperback priced at $5.00. Contributions from Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, William S. Burroughs, Larry McMurtry, etc. Inscribed by Ken Babbs inside front cover. Wear to wraps, mostly at spine.
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![D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. [War of 1812]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/078/010/1528010078.0.l.jpg)
D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. [War of 1812]
by Bacheller, Irving
Lothrop Publishing Company, 1901. Hardcover. Near Fine. Yohn, F.C. Full red cloth binding with central oval paper onlay with gilt decorative frame, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 7-3/4" x 5-1/4", 362 pp. Owner's inscription to front endpaper; tips lightly worn. Red silk cloth covers with gilt lettering and rose flower & stem frame around paper onlay by F.C. Yohn, who also did the plate illustrations within. Laid in is an original publisher's announcement for the... Read More
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Golden Words of Faith, Hope and Love
by Bachelder, Louise (editor)
Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Corcos, Chrystal. 62 pages, two tone illustrations throughout; light shelf wear, gift inscriptions to ffep, clipped dust jacket with sun faded spine, now in protective mylar cover. An attractive copy of one of the beautiful Peter Pauper Press vintage books.
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Lightnin', After the Play of the Same Name
by Bacon, Frank; Smith, Winchell
Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth boards lettered in black, under Robert Robinson illustrated dust jacket, four photographic plates from the 1925 William Fox / John Ford film. Minor wear to book, DJ has chipping to bottom of spine panel, but quite nice with good color to front panel which shows Lightnin' on a soapbox with a dog for his audience. Lightnin' was a record-setting play with almost 1300 performances starring Frank Bacon as... Read More
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Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Locomotives and Freight Equipment. Also Including the Carson & Colorado Railroad and the Nevada & California Railroad, 1880-1960
by Bader, Robert A
Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 2010. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering under white illustrated dust jacket. Fine in all regards. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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The Little Woodsman of the North
by Bailey, Bernadine
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Illustrated cover board with white board on rear, 9x7 inches, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white pictures taken by the author; slight edge wear to boards, previous owner's name penciled in on front free end paper, otherwise a bright, clean copy that has maintained it's vivid color; dust jacket has small chip to head of spine, tail of spine is worn, 1"... Read More
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Peacock Feathers
by Bailey, Temple
Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Phillips, Coles. Blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering under dust jacket with Coles Phillips painting (enlargement of the frontispiece.) A lovely copy that presents quite well. Temple Bailey was one of the most popular authors of her day, selling an estimated 3 million copies of her books, 2 of which were made into early films, including this title, which was filmed by Svend Gade in 1925. This book was likely... Read More
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Tyrol
by Baillie-Grohman, W. A
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Compton, E. Harrison. Gray cloth decorated in red and green with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Some pages remain uncut. Top front corner bumped. Corners rubbed and tiny nick to top rear board. Spine ends rubbed with tiny pull tears at head. Cloth wearing through at tail of front joint with fraying. Gilt to top edge faded. Clean pages with... Read More
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Young Adolf
by Bainbridge, Beryl
Duckworth, 1978. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 7x5x0. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering under black DJ w/ vibrant red letters priced 3.95 with Duckworth 4.95 sticker on top. First printing. Bainbridge's historical tale of 5 months of Adolf Hitler's life. She was nominated five times for the Booker and won two Whitbread awards.
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Hemingway: The Writer as Artist
by Baker, Carlos
Princeton University Press, 1956. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition stated. Full grey cloth boards under orange pictorial dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 355 pp. Spine panel of DJ faded to grey, else a very nice copy indeed. Additional postage required for international shipping.
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